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KU would ‘love’ to play another disaster relief game, but can’t, Bill Self says

Bill Self says Kansas would “love to” explore the possibility of playing a “Showdown For Relief” encore basketball game this October — maybe a second battle against Missouri in as many preseasons.

However …

“We’re not going to be able to,” Self, the Jayhawks’ 16th-year coach, told The Star on Thursday night. He was referring to perhaps holding an exhibition game for victims of Hurricane Florence floodwater and wind that devastated parts of North Carolina earlier this month.

A year ago, KU and Missouri played an Oct. 22 exhibition at the Sprint Center that raised $2.